1. REFERENCE
    9 min read

    So you want Database Versioning?

    Tim Sehn|

    Here at DoltHub, we've had a lot of success with our "So you want..." series of blog posts helping people find Dolt when they are looking for it. Dolt is a lot of things. Dolt is a version controlled database, a Git database, Git for data, data…

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  1. FEATURE RELEASE
    9 min read

    Introducing dolt_column_diff

    Dolt is a version controlled relational database that combines the version control features of Git and the relational database features of MySQL. One of the features that leverages the powerful versioned history Dolt tracks is our Database Hist...

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  2. TECHNICAL
    17 min read

    Adding a GPT assistant to the Dolt CLI

    ChatGPT is the talk of the town with the release of the immensely powerful GPT 4 model. Unless you've been living under a rock with no WiFi, you've certainly heard about it by now, and probably played with it yourself. Many people are excited, some...

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  3. FEATURE RELEASEHOSTED
    13 min read

    Versioned MySQL Replicas on Hosted Dolt

    Today we're showing how to use Hosted Dolt to run a versioned MySQL replica . Adding Dolt to your existing MySQL database as a replica is a great way to easily try out Dolt with your own data. As we'll see in the demo, the changes from MySQL f...

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  4. WEBFEATURE RELEASE
    2 min read

    Introducing the Commit Graph on DoltHub: Visualizing Commit History

    For those new to Dolt and DoltHub , Dolt is Git for data. Git versions files. Dolt versions SQL tables. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt databases. We're excited to announce the release of a new DoltHub feature: the commi...

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  5. USE CASEREFERENCE
    11 min read

    Creating a Webapp with Hosted Dolt and AWS Amplify

    In 2018 when we began building Dolt , we wanted to bring version control functionality to your datasets. We thought that the ability to branch and merge changes to data would allow for greater collaboration, resulting in higher quality data. Over...

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  6. GOLANG
    9 min read

    SwissMap: A smaller, faster Golang Hash Table

    Today's blog is announcing SwissMap , a new Golang hash table based on SwissTable that is faster and uses less memory than Golang's built-in map. We'll cover the motivation, design and implementation of this new package and give you some reaso...

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  7. TECHNICAL
    8 min read

    Debugging Dolt's SQL Analyzer

    I'm new to Dolt, both as a user and as an employee. Since I'm new here, I suppose I should introduce myself. I'm Neil 👋. You can look at my history on LinkedIn, but what matters is that I'd describe myself as developer obsessed. I've spent ...

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  8. FEATURE RELEASE
    6 min read

    Introducing DOLT_PATCH()

    Dolt is a version controlled relational database that is a combination of the version control features of Git and the relational database features of MySQL. Today, we announce another new feature, the DOLT_PATCH() table function . This featu...

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  9. SQL
    14 min read

    Debugging Slow SQL Queries

    Dolt is the only version controlled relational database. Like if MySQL and Git had a baby, this baby also inherited the trauma of both parents. Today we will be talking about the SQL half. Our users send us increasingly complicated queries in ne...

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  10. BOUNTY
    5 min read

    Price transparency is broken

    Last year I wrote about how much new health insurance data spilled onto the web ( petabytes ). It turned out that for practical purposes most of the rates could probably be discarded , with the usable fraction probably being less than 10%. Bu...

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  11. TECHNICAL
    4 min read

    DoltHub goes to PyData NYC

    Dolt is the world's first SQL database with Git-style version control. One of our more popular use cases is assembling large datasets with an army of volunteers, like with our medical pricing bounties . The same people who care about these larg...

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  12. HOSTED
    7 min read

    Comparing DoltHub and the Hosted SQL Workbench

    Dolt is a MySQL-compatible database with Git-like features. DoltHub is GitHub for Dolt. Hosted DoltDB is AWS RDS for Dolt. Both DoltHub and Hosted come with a UI to help visualize data and track changes, while also providing seamless ...

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  13. REFERENCE
    23 min read

    Getting Started: Versioned MySQL Replica

    We have new mode to run Dolt in! The Versioned MySQL Replica. In this mode, you set up Dolt to replicate a primary MySQL. Set up can take as as little as three commands. After set up, Dolt replicates every write to your primary to Dolt and cr...

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  14. GOLANG
    8 min read

    Real World Golang Concurrency Examples

    Here at DoltHub, we're big fans of Golang. We built DoltDB , the first fully versioned SQL relational database, entirely on a Golang stack, and we use Go for all the services that power DoltHub , too. This post is a continuation of our series o...

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  15. 8 min read

    Caching Gatsby builds with Docker in GitHub Actions

    At DoltHub , we write a lot of blogs. Each week our team publishes three to four blogs on various topics. Some recent blogs include our ongoing effort to publish Hospital Price Data in a single, coherent database , the release of Dolt v0.75.0...

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  16. TECHNICAL
    4 min read

    Journaling Chunk Store

    Today's blog is announcing the 0.75.0 release of Dolt. With it comes the general release of Dolt's Chunk Journal, a new ACID-compliant persistence layer that is both faster and more reliable than our existing store. Over the last few years, Dolt...

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  17. BOUNTY
    3 min read

    Hospital data for all: Part I

    I announced a few months ago that we were planning to make hospital prices accessible in a single, public, freely-accessible database, giving the public access to secret negotiations insurers have with hospitals. We’ll capture these rates in two...

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  18. FEATURE RELEASESQL
    9 min read

    Dolt Supports Spatial Indexes

    Dolt is a version controlled SQL database; think Git and MySQL had a baby. Just over a year ago, we began our spatial journey with the addition of Spatial Types . We closed that gap about three months ago when we announced the support of Mult...

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  19. REFERENCE
    7 min read

    So you want Change Data Capture?

    Here at DoltHub we just launched versioned MySQL replication . Dolt is a version controlled database and you can now replicate to Dolt from your production MySQL. This new Dolt deployment mode has it competing in a new product categor...

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  20. HOSTEDFEATURE RELEASE
    2 min read

    Hosted DoltDB on Google Cloud Platform

    Dolt is a SQL database with Git-like features that allow for version control of data. Last year we launched Hosted DoltDB , a hosted platform for Dolt databases that offers a streamlined user experience and easy access to Dolt's powerful databa...

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